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Orpheus Caledonius : or, A collection of Scots songs

by: Thomson, William, approximately 1684-approximately 1760

Publication date: 1733
Topics: Songs, Scottish, Songs (High voice) with continuo
Publisher: London : Printed for the author, at his House in Leicester-Fields.
Collection: universitywesterno; ontario_council_university_libraries; toronto
Contributor: University of Western Ontario
Language: English
Volume: 1
Item Size: 274.8M

For high voice and continuo

An enlarged edition of Thomson's 'Orpheus Caledonius or a collection of the best Scotch songs', London, [1725]

According to the New Grove Online, many of the tunes in the first edition are from Allan Ramsay's Tea-table miscellany (Edinburgh, 1723), while the melodic ornaments and figured basses are Thomson's. In this 2nd ed. the basses are not figured

Several songs include transposed parts for flute

Engraved music on leaves numbered separately

Unfigured, unrealized bass

List of subscribers in vol. 1

V.1 dedicated to the Queen, v.2 dedicated to the Duchess of Hamilton

Dr. James and Dr. Margaret Whitby donation